Safe

Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings

by Trader Joe's

Open Food Facts label for barcode 00947787 · Trader Joe's · Meals. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 00947787 · Serving size 141 g, 5 pieces

The verdict

Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings by Trader Joe's scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 31 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 31-component record, beginning with Pork, Onion, Wheat Flour. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 31 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
C
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

65/100

Grade B-

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

C

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

00947787 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-DENSE 31 ing. REG-SPARSE 13% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-C Nutri-C RANK-MID Len top 46% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-FINISH Root beer · ±0 BOOK-OFF …947787 · July 2026

4 of 31 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 00947787 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Root beer · Nearest score peer is Root beer at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplin…95/1002. Root beer: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Root beer95/1003. Ginger beer: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Ginger beer95/1004. Fleur de Sel Caramel Sauce: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Fleur de Sel Caramel Sauce95/1005. kosher dill spears: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. kosher dill spears95/100
High-band neighbours for Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings (95/100) outside Trader Joe's.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings
95/100
Root beer
95/100
Ginger beer
95/100
Fleur de Sel Caramel Sauce
95/100
kosher dill spears
95/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 15,626 products we've scored in the Meals category, the average safety score is 93.6/100. Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings scores 1.4 points above that category average (95/100 vs. 93.6/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Meals products

Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings lists 31 ingredients on its label

31 54th percentile a longer ingredient list than 54% of the 11,283 products we track

0–2: 12 products (0%). Below this entry. 2–4: 83 products (1%). Below this entry. 4–6: 127 products (1%). Below this entry. 6–8: 209 products (2%). Below this entry. 8–10: 312 products (3%). Below this entry. 10–12: 315 products (3%). Below this entry. 12–14: 412 products (4%). Below this entry. 14–16: 477 products (4%). Below this entry. 16–18: 542 products (5%). Below this entry. 18–20: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 20–22: 545 products (5%). Below this entry. 22–24: 550 products (5%). Below this entry. 24–26: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 26–28: 552 products (5%). Below this entry. 28–30: 574 products (5%). Below this entry. 30–32: 517 products (5%). This entry sits in this band. 32–34: 466 products (4%). Above this entry. 34–36: 451 products (4%). Above this entry. 36–38: 443 products (4%). Above this entry. 38–40: 388 products (3%). Above this entry. 40–42: 3,204 products (28%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Meals product, bucketed by value

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Distribution as text

11,283 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 31 (54th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
12 products (0%)
2–4
83 products (1%)
4–6
127 products (1%)
6–8
209 products (2%)
8–10
312 products (3%)
10–12
315 products (3%)
12–14
412 products (4%)
14–16
477 products (4%)
16–18
542 products (5%)
18–20
552 products (5%)
20–22
545 products (5%)
22–24
550 products (5%)
24–26
552 products (5%)
26–28
552 products (5%)
28–30
574 products (5%)
30–32
517 products (5%)
32–34
466 products (4%)
34–36
451 products (4%)
36–38
443 products (4%)
38–40
388 products (3%)
40 and above
3,204 products (28%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 11,283 Meals products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

PORK, ONION, WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, POTATO STARCH, EGG WHITE, SPICES, SUGAR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: PORK FAT, SESAME OIL, SOY SAUCE (WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEAN, SALT), GREEN ONION, SAKE (WATER, RICE, KOJI [ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE], SALT), OYSTER FLAVORED SAUCE (WATER, SUGAR, SALT, OYSTER EXTRACTIVE [OYSTER, WATER, SALT], MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CARAMEL COLOR), ONION POWDER, SALT, PORK BASE (ROASTED PORK INCLUDING PORK JUICE, SALT, POTATO FLOUR, CORN OIL, PORK FLAVOR [CONTAINS PORK FAT], FLAVORINGS).

Other products containing Oyster Extractive

Oyster Extractive is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Meals Chinese dumplings

High-score cross-brand comparables for Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings

Neighbours outside Trader Joe's with screening scores in the same high band as Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Trader Joe's; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 31-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Pork Shu Mai Pork Dumplings's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
  • Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 00947787: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.